I use autocomplete, asking chat, and full agentic code generation with Cline & Claude.

I don’t consider environmental damage by AI because it is a negligible source of such damage compared to other vastly more wasteful industries.

I am primarily interested in text generation. The only use I have for generated pictures, voices, video or music is to fuck around. I think I generated my D&D character portrait. My last portrait was a stick man.

What I ask it to do? My ChatGPT history is vast and covers everything from “how is this word used” to “what drinks can I mix given what’s in my liquor cabinet” to “analyze code for me” to “my doctor ordered some labs and some came back abnormal, what does this mean? Does this test have a high rate I’d false positive?” to “someone wrote this at me on the internet, help me understand their point” to “someone wrote this at me in the internet, how can I tell them to fuck the fuck off… nicely?” And I write atrocious fiction.

Oh I use it a lot to analyze articles and identify bias, reliability, look up other related articles, things that sound bad but really don’t mean anything and point out gaps in the journalistic process (I.e. shoddy reporting).

I also have written a discord dungeon master bot. It works poorly due to aggressive censorship and slop on open AI.

AI superintelligence is:

• not a thing
• would have to be a thing in order to get banned
• if it really was superintelligent they would just ignore the ban — doesn’t apply to “contiguous superpositional vectorized thought-matrix” (or whatever)

Do they even have any kind of plan or are they just throwing the same shit at the wall and hoping ten people fuck up their vote and hit the wrong button?

Thank you for writing my comment for me. Way better than AI. I didn’t even know I wanted to post this until I read it.

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Exactly

I know. Cried myself to sleep over it when I was younger. Seems a bit silly now, but I think a lot of us go through those feelings. I can’t help that, but I can assure you you’ll have a different perspective on it some day. For all the good it does you now.

If it helps, my thirties were much wilder than my youth.

I hear you, mate. When I was thirteen all my friends were having crazy sex while I could barely get a handy. And if you think that’s wild, my parents generation literally did nothing but drugs and sex all day. My older kids didn’t even consider it a party unless someone was getting spanked or tied up, while my teens must content themselves with sexting everyone their nudes—damned Covid.

There has always been hookup culture, and it has never included you (you being about 90% of readers). This generation is unique in neither aspect.

Wait, so you’re part of the generation, your experience is different, and you’re assuming the problem is your looks and not that you’re being lied to?

I’m just going to wait for hell to freeze over before I take their word on things.

No.

Could use a couple of rusted-out cars on the lawn.

I moisturize, though.

Perhaps relevant for some: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2945470/ring-lets-police-ask-for-security-videos-heres-how-to-opt-out.html

I’d use it on occasion if there were a reason to, but I just can’t conceive of any possible benefit to this. Like, OAI, pretend you want me to buy in and tell me what the use case is.

WAIT!

And it can’t be a personalized experience that shows me only the things I’m most likely to want to buy (or the things most likely to convince me I want to buy something).

NOT YET!

And it can’t be to make sure I never have to experience something on the internet that challenge any of the assumptions that keep me comfortable and happy.

Okay. Now you can go.

crickets

I didn’t feel a single iota of rage or horror that they were on Bluesky. I didn’t notice. My social media remains blissfully maga free. Thank you, block lists.

That’s my understanding as well, so it not being a reconciliation pretty much means this fucker is never getting passed. At least not until they make enough concessions for the Dems, which I’ll be honest I don’t want concessions. I want them to withdraw their participation in this government other than to vote no on everything.

They won’t do that, but that’s my wish.

I did that for like a year, but eventually I lost my ability to use it even through a browser. Not sure why your experience was different. Maybe Android vs. iOS? Anyway, I’ve been off it so long now it doesn’t matter. No one uses it to reach me.

That’s a relief. I thought this was a reconciliation bill or something.

You’re absolutely right about the connotations here. “Plot hatched to thwart” is exactly what you’d say about a nefarious conspiracy.

In fact, plot hatched to thwart democracy is about how I’d sum up this administration.

So does this mean there are 7 abstentions, any one of whom, including Fetterman, could potentially push the total to 51, which is all they need?

We really are hanging on by the slimmest thread. Honestly I hope they don’t pass a funding bill until midterms.